A good friend of mine named Chris who I first met while attending Snow College, invited me to go to Kauai, Hawaii with him September 2010. He travels quite a bit for work and accumulates sky miles quickly and offered to let me stay in his hotel and use his rental car with him so all I needed was to get a ticket and cash while there!
Just like when I went to Israel/Palestine I bought my ticket days after and set off to Google to research what was in store for me.
I didn’t know much about the different islands but really is any part of Hawaii not worth traveling to?
Little did I know I was about to fall in love!
I will live in Kauai one day! Do you ever get the feeling that you’re just not finished with somewhere, someone or something? Not sure what the future holds but you know there is more? Well that is the way I feel about Kauai. I’ll be back; we have more in store for each other in our future!
While there I went hiking, kayaking, swimming in the ocean, biking, zip lining, snorkeling, met Stephanie from Nani Moon Mead, went swimming with sea turtles, saw dolphins, ate spam for the first time, found my favorite cemetery, tried strawberry guava, had green fried tomatoes at 22 North (my favorite restaurant on the island) and celebrated my birthday!
Kauai is a slower paced island and is not as touristy and crowded like most islands. It was my first exposure to the island mindset and I found myself often thinking about permaculture and import/exporting products. There is a one way road that wraps around the island except for a 16 mile stretch of the Na Pali coast. This coast with cliffs 4,000 ft above the ocean and is only passable by Kayaking. Chris was meant to kayak the coast but over the week we were there they would not let anyone go out because of the size of waves.
Kauai was so magical and mysterious because there is a large portion of the island that is only passable by hiking. There are all kinds of stories that Kauai is where you go to escape the law and theoretically they live anywhere within the dense island. The most harmful animals on the island are bees. There are no poisonous snakes or spiders and a vast majority of vegetation can be eaten. Making it the perfect place to hideaway, so if I just disappear… you’ll really know where I am.
my first real lei
It's on my bucket list to go back to Kauai and live there, even if its just for a month!
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